Cake circle



Aug. 6, 1940. v E. o. STEUDEL CAKE CIRCLE Filed Nov. 18, 1937 If I 206723 02.

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, V UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2,210,102- I i j cAK 013cm] 7 p Erich Steudel, Chicago; Ill. *2 I p {Application November is, Itasca Nb. 175,282 f A zicl imsfi (01. 55-45) .This invention relates to improvements :in The channels are connected by four channels ex plates of molded fibrous material, for-cake. or tending'radia-lly. ofzthezplate. The resulting body. analogous pastry, and is 'particularly an improveparts I are ofvarious shapes as indicated at Ira, Hr ment on my Patent No. 1,979,911,.issued Novemand: lo. The bottomportions of said channels:

5 her 6, 1934 and reissued January '7, 1936 asNo. indicated as 2, 2", and 2" all lie in the same 5 19,813. I horizontal plane, thereby giving the plate a dis- The main objects of this invention are to protributed bearing part which, in effect, is subvide a cake or pastry plate having more stability stantially the equivalent of the ordinary flat-botthan plates now have in use, without increasing tom. pie plate and having the same stability.

the weight wherein the cake-bearing surface ex- -The cake-receiving upper surface as awhole is tends upwardly from a bearing surface and substantially continuous, as appears at I.

whereby any segment cut from said cake plate 7 As can readily be seen, the cake-bearing porwillbe self-supporting on a plane surface; to ,protions l are formed and arranged in such a manvide such a plate which may be constructed or ner that the cake cannot sag or crack as the event quarters or halves of the cake carried lent of a continuousflat surface. Moreover, by thereby are to be sold; to provide a plate having molding the plate in this form its stability is very a single continuous flat-bottomed channel or the appreciably increased over the cake plate forms like extending downwardly from the cake bearnow in use. ing surface distributedly throughout to reinforce It can now be apparent that after a whole cake 20 and support efiectively the entire area of the is placed on the circle a sales person may readily plate; to provide a circular plate which may be divide the cake in any manner desired by the cut into quarters or halves at any segment thereof customer. When the cake is being divided into wherein each quarter or half will still function any segmental portion the sales person cuts right as an upraised platform onto which a quarter through the plate and thereby the customer is 25 or half of the cake may seat, without'fear of provided with a sanitary base upon which the collapsing and be self-supporting; to provide a cake rests and which plate will not collapse and cake circle having a flat table or cake-bearing be self-supporting when-placed on a plane surportion lying in a horizontal plane and supportface. This obviates the necessity f of provision 9 ed by downwardly-extendingflat-bottomed chanof the additional plates on which the baker usunels, the bottoms of which all he in a common ,ally puts the segmental portions when less than plane and to provide a cake circle or holder the-entire cake is sold, thereby cutting the plate which shall be simple in form and construction, costs.

which can be made by a stamping or pressing In the form shown in Fig. .3, the plate is prac- 3 operation, and which shall be inexpensive to tically identical with the one shown in Fig. 1, 85 manufacture. except that by modifications of the channels Illustrative embodiments of this invention are 3 the center-bearing portion la of the latter. shown by the accompanying drawing, in which: figure has been omitted, thereby extending the Fig. 1 is a top plan view of my improved cake apex. of the four triangular body members 4 40 plate in discoidal form. I I I nearly to the center of the plate. Here again, 40 Fig. 2 shows a cross-sectional View of the same however, the channels 3' and 3", are interconon a larger scale and taken on the line 2-2 of nected to-form a continuous channel'throughout Fig. 1, and illustrates .a cake in position thereon the area of the plate with the radial channels as shownin dotted outline. extending outwardly from the center of the plate.

Figs. 3, 4, 5, 6, and '7 are plan views of modi- Figs. 4 and 5 are almost'identical with the plate 45 fied forms of plates or plate sections embodying shown in Fig. 3, except that they show half and my invention. quarter plates respectively,each containing con- Referring to the device shown in Fig; 1, this necting channels as described with reference to is a circular molded pulp plate of sheet-like Fig. 3. I I 0 form having raised flat body parts I and a 0011- Fig. 6 shows another form of my invention, tinuous connecting rib or channel 2 distributed with a pair of semicircular cake-bearing surfaces throughout its area. In greater detail this plate 5 and a ring surface 5f, having connecting 'ch'an-. has a pair of concentric channels one positioned nels 6. Fig. 7 is almost identical with the form near the outer peripheral edge of the plate and shown in Fig. 6, except that it shows only one assembled in appropriate segmental sections in the entire bearing area is practicallythe equiva- 15 the other positioned near the center of the plate. half of the construction shown in Fig. 6. Here the flat body parts I and 8 are separated, by the channel 9.

It is now apparent that the forms shown in Figs. 4, 5, and '7 may be the result of a cutting operation of the baker or salesperson. A cake and the plate upon which it rests may be out into quarters or halves .while the cake is retained on the plate, and the plate may still serve its intended function of supporting any portion of the cut cake Without fear of having the plate collapse. This, of course, is due to the peculiar channelled manner in which the plate is made. This feature carries an inherent advantage over the plates now in use.

It is to be understood that some of the details set forth may be altered or omitted without departing from the spirit of the invention as defined by the appended claims.

I claim:

1. A cake plate formed of a circular piece of fiat molded pulp having a plurality of connected channels, one of said channels being positioned adjacent and following the outer peripheral edge of said plate and another of said channels being circular and positioned adjacent the center of said plate, each of said channels being interconnected by channels extending radially from the central portion of the plate, and the floor of all of said channels lying in the same horizontal plane whereby any segment cut from said plate will be self-supporting on a plane surface.

2. A cake plate of the class described formed symmetrically about its center, said plate comprising a plurality of equally elevated load-bearing planar parts and downward channel parts of mutually equal depth to support and connect said planar parts, said channel parts including straight channels radiating from the central part of the plate, and arcuate channelsconnecting the outer ends of said straight channels, said plate being molded of sheet pulp adapted for segmental cutting with cake or the like supported on said plate for portion service or sale, and said channel parts having walls of sufficient stiffness to support the several resulting cake sections.

ERICH O. STEU'DEL. 

